Oh, they knew the writing was on the wall.
50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread
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They tried to cancel the show at the end of every season anyway! What would have been different this time?
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That it was finally happening?
Well surely at the end of the second season before the letter writing campaign they probably thought the same!
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I've always thought it odd how the US screens it's new programmes! They split a season of shows in half and then show the rest in the new year while repeats blossom in the meantime! In the UK we used to show all the episodes of a series, maybe take a few weeks break near to Christmas and finish the rest in the early new year!
Turnabout Intruder was first shown a couple of months after All Our Yesterdays which is a little odd! The only similar incidence I can think of over here is when ATV screened the final episodes of the second series of Space 1999! They showed the first 17 up until Christmas 1976 then waited until August 77 to finish the last seven shows but they only showed five and sort of dumped the show after that, only eventually finishing the missing two off at bank holidays or public holidays!
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Turnabout Intruder was first shown a couple of months after All Our Yesterdays which is a little odd! The only similar incidence I can think of over here is when ATV screened the final episodes of the second series of Space 1999! They showed the first 17 up until Christmas 1976 then waited until August 77 to finish the last seven shows but they only showed five and sort of dumped the show after that, only eventually finishing the missing two off at bank holidays or public holidays!
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I've been watching this and several other shows from the period in 50th anniversary sync, and that's how things were here back then as well. Any particular show takes the odd week or two off somewhere in the holiday season, and odd other weeks off during the TV season, but they didn't take off weeks at a time like they do today. A typical first-run season ca. 1966-69 ran from mid-September to mid-April. The load gets a little light around Christmas week, but there aren't entire weeks during the season with no new episodes of any show.
This came up upthread, there was a reason for it--it was preempted on its original intended airdate (March 28, two weeks after "All Our Yesterdays" aired) by coverage of Eisenhower's death.
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Wow, I totally missed that crackup of Mira's. I thought she was just a little cranky and had a slight problem with authority, which just made her an interesting character, to me. Someone said it was hard to care when a peripheral character like her was in danger... I think she was very well drawn, and was more 3 dimensional than many passing guest characters. I did care.
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Fans who really let an episode like this have it, declaring it a stinker because it didn't entertain them quite enough... talk about hard to please. Sounds like hyperbole to me. Though if you watch Remastered, I can almost see it. The gripping thing about Lights of Zetar is, over and above anything else, that original special effect. Why they felt they could second guess the creative design choices of the original team while improving effects, I don't know. Those little glowing squares have no creepy effect whatsoever.
It actually aired for the first time on June 3, because they preempted it in March.
Then it was nearly three months between episodes? Seems ridiculous or that they had nothing else to show that week and the last one was burning a hole in their pocket!
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Then it was nearly three months between episodes? Seems ridiculous or that they had nothing else to show that week and the last one was burning a hole in their pocket!
I think they aired it when the reruns started.
Yes, it aired on the show's new rerun season night. By that point The Saint had taken over Trek's Friday 10 p.m. timeslot (bringing it all back to British telly--the British shows shown on American prime time TV in those days were often run as Summer replacements).
I love Star Trek more, but I also loved The Saint with Roger Moore. I have the Saint DVD collection. Very Cool!
I love Star Trek more, but I also loved The Saint with Roger Moore. I have the Saint DVD collection. Very Cool!
I like that short-lived Series he did with Tony Curtis "The Persuaders".
I have The Persuaders DVD collection, too. Two millionaire playboys – one a peer of the realm, born into money, and the other a self-made man who fought his way out of the New York slums – are conned (persuaded) by a retired judge into righting wrongs in a series that combines action, style, humour and panache in large quantities! At 46, Tony Curtis did most of his own stunts which were mind blowing. People, you need to watch this series. Roger Moore quit to play James Bond, 007.
I've heard the original idea was when Moore got the 007 role there was a plan to get Noel Harrison in with Curtis and eventually even replace him as well! Why oh why didn't we ever see more of Olivia Mela? 
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Thanks!
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